Software Engineering Manager (Canadian Residents)

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available distributed systems and microservices. You will own architecture and system design decisions, drive the software development lifecycle (SDLC) using Agile/SCRUM practices, and partner with product, QA, and operations to deliver reliable production services. The role combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering to ensure performance, observability, security, and cost-effective operation of cloud-native systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering teams; hire, coach, conduct performance reviews, and promote career development.
• Define and own technical direction and architecture for scalable, high-availability systems and microservices; set standards for design, code quality, testing, and release practices.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to translate roadmaps into delivery plans and reliable production services.
• Drive system design and architecture reviews, including distributed systems patterns, event-driven architectures, gRPC and RESTful APIs, and data modeling for SQL and NoSQL stores.
• Own the SDLC and Agile/SCRUM delivery processes: sprint planning, backlog grooming, estimations, and continuous improvement.
• Champion CI/CD, DevOps practices and pipeline orchestration (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) to accelerate safe delivery and automated releases.
• Collaborate with SRE and Ops on monitoring, observability, logging and tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger/Zipkin) to ensure SLAs, incident response and release & incident management.
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud environments and container orchestrations (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Design and enforce testing strategy: unit, integration, end-to-end, TDD/BDD, test automation and load testing (JMeter).
• Advocate and enforce security and compliance best practices, including OWASP guidance and identity standards (OAuth, SAML).
• Manage infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation using Terraform, CloudFormation and related tooling; work across AWS, Azure and GCP environments.
• Oversee messaging and data architectures including Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra and other storage technologies; optimize for throughput and resilience.
• Lead code review practices, technical debt management, and introduce architectural and process improvements to increase developer productivity.
• Drive observability of business and technical metrics, build runbooks and improve incident postmortems and remediation processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a management or technical lead role, delivering distributed systems and cloud-native services.
• Proven experience in software architecture and system design for high availability, scalability, performance and resilience.
• Strong track record with microservices, event-driven architecture, RESTful APIs and gRPC.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, Docker and container orchestration.
• Solid background in CI/CD pipeline implementation and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI and GitHub Actions; experience with pipeline orchestration and release automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin).
• Proficiency with databases and data modeling: SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous architectures.
• Strong programming experience in one or more languages (Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go) and build tools (Maven, Gradle).
• Experience implementing test automation strategies, TDD/BDD practices and load testing (JMeter).
• Practical knowledge of DevOps/SRE principles, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and cost/capacity management in cloud environments.
• Understanding of security best practices including OAuth, SAML and OWASP recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with product, QA, and operations teams; proven ability to influence technical direction and deliver results.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Base Salary: $170,000 - $185,000 (CAD DOLLARS)
• REMOTE (1x in office per month)
• Healthcare package
• Profit Sharing Bonus!
• Company Discounts